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Marxism After Marx

Political Theory 101

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Are We in the Situation That We Desperately Need Balance?

The low economic organization of early capitalist conditions, making possible very extreme levels of political organization. But the reason why a political balance is necessary is in order to overthrow the unbalanced economic conditions. So you have on the one hand capitalism's tendency to rip apart organizations and then also its tendency to rapidly create new forms of organization as coping mechanisms. And that swinging between periods of disembatting and re-embedding is Polanyu would call it. That causes a lot of trouble.

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